Author Topic: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition  (Read 124790 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

kevin_video

  • Organ Grinder
  • *****
  • Posts: 4833
    • Email
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #300 on: April 04, 2010, 02:28:35 PM »
Without treatment, you will eventually die when you reach 0 Constitution.
Good old alcohol poisoning.

Thanks for this.
I reject your reality, and substitute my own.

When God gives you lemons... it's time to find a new God.

Like D&D Freakouts? Check out this 4th Ed one.

McPoyo

  • Organ Grinder
  • *****
  • Posts: 3783
    • Email
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #301 on: April 04, 2010, 03:25:33 PM »
Without treatment, you will eventually die when you reach 0 Constitution.
Good old alcohol poisoning.

Thanks for this.
one minor correction, you start making saves for every drink after the first you consume with a 60 minute timeframe. The second such save is made at a -1, which doubles for each additional save made within any given timeframe. A remove poison/cure poison spell instantly resets the save penalty to 0, or halts alcohol poisoning, though it doesn't heal the ability damage, which returns at a rate of 1 point to wisdom and dexterity each for every hour after it was taken.

It should be noted, that, technically you could take that one "pick a poison and become immune to it" feat, selecting "Alcohol" as your selected poison, and never lose a drinking contest ever again.
[Spoiler]
A gygaxian dungeon is like the world's most messed up game show.

Behind door number one: INSTANT DEATH!
Behind door number 2: A magic crown!
Behind door number 3: 4d6 giant bees, and THREE HUNDRED POUNDS OF HONEY!
They don't/haven't, was the point. 3.5 is as dead as people not liking nice tits.

Sometimes, their tits (3.5) get enhancements (houserules), but that doesn't mean people don't like nice tits.

Though sometimes, the surgeon (DM) botches them pretty bad...
Best metaphor I have seen in a long time.  I give you much fu.
Three Errata for the Mage-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Barbarian-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Monks doomed to die,
One for the Wizard on his dark throne
In the Land of Charop where the Shadows lie.
[/spoiler]

kevin_video

  • Organ Grinder
  • *****
  • Posts: 4833
    • Email
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #302 on: April 04, 2010, 03:26:44 PM »
It should be noted, that, technically you could take that one "pick a poison and become immune to it" feat, selecting "Alcohol" as your selected poison, and never lose a drinking contest ever again.
That's kind of funny actually.
I reject your reality, and substitute my own.

When God gives you lemons... it's time to find a new God.

Like D&D Freakouts? Check out this 4th Ed one.

Havok4

  • Man in Gorilla Suit
  • *****
  • Posts: 2144
  • It can only be attributable to human error.
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #303 on: April 04, 2010, 03:27:37 PM »

It should be noted, that, technically you could take that one "pick a poison and become immune to it" feat, selecting "Alcohol" as your selected poison, and never lose a drinking contest ever again.

Also alcohol gives the trowserfang dwarf build nice out of combat healing.

kevin_video

  • Organ Grinder
  • *****
  • Posts: 4833
    • Email
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #304 on: April 04, 2010, 03:28:18 PM »

It should be noted, that, technically you could take that one "pick a poison and become immune to it" feat, selecting "Alcohol" as your selected poison, and never lose a drinking contest ever again.

Also alcohol gives the trowserfang dwarf build nice out of combat healing.
And for the drunken master it only makes them more powerful.
I reject your reality, and substitute my own.

When God gives you lemons... it's time to find a new God.

Like D&D Freakouts? Check out this 4th Ed one.

snakeman830

  • Organ Grinder
  • *****
  • Posts: 3494
  • BG's resident furry min/maxxer
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #305 on: April 04, 2010, 03:58:23 PM »
Q60b: Is there any way for a Deep Dwarf to negate dazzle from daylight? Be it by spell, item or otherwise.
Feat: Daylight Adaptation from Underdark, and Races of Eberron. You can take that early and then retrain it later if you want (after you get the shades).
The shades are only 10gp.  Always a better deal.
I am constantly amazed by how many DM's ban Tomb of Battle.  The book doesn't even exist!

Quotes:[spoiler]
By yes, she means no.
That explains so much about my life.
hiicantcomeupwithacharacterthatisntaghostwhyisthatamijustretardedorsomething
Why would you even do this? It hurts my eyes and looks like you ate your keyboard before suffering an attack of explosive diarrhea.
[/spoiler]

If using Genesis to hide your phylactry, set it at -300 degrees farenheit.  See how do-gooders fare with a liquid atmosphere.

kevin_video

  • Organ Grinder
  • *****
  • Posts: 4833
    • Email
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #306 on: April 04, 2010, 04:04:22 PM »
Q60b: Is there any way for a Deep Dwarf to negate dazzle from daylight? Be it by spell, item or otherwise.
Feat: Daylight Adaptation from Underdark, and Races of Eberron. You can take that early and then retrain it later if you want (after you get the shades).
The shades are only 10gp.  Always a better deal.
Which means you can afford it at 1st level. That is a good deal.
I reject your reality, and substitute my own.

When God gives you lemons... it's time to find a new God.

Like D&D Freakouts? Check out this 4th Ed one.

Surreal

  • Hong Kong
  • ****
  • Posts: 1430
    • Email
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #307 on: April 04, 2010, 04:25:50 PM »
A62: I just checked Draconomicon, Dragon Magic and Races of the Dragon... there are no full progression arcane classes :(
---
"The late, sedate, and no to great." ~Surreal

Some Handy Links for CO Work (WotC 339 version) - a compilation of links for base/prestige class handbooks, tactics, spellcasting, character builds, D&D databases, etc.
Archived version of the above with working links

The Mango Index - a giant index for all things D&D and where to find them
The Mango List Reborn! - rehosted by KellKheraptis

Lists of Stuff - listing of class features etc and how to get them, etc. sort of like above but a little more specific and sorted by category
Polymorph, Wildshape and Shapechange, oh my! (comparison charts) - side-by-side comparison of all the various form altering abilities
Alternative Class Features
alternative ways to get class skills

CantripN

  • Hong Kong
  • ****
  • Posts: 1199
  • Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating
    • Cantrip, Gestalt Gish
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #308 on: April 04, 2010, 04:33:39 PM »
That said, Wyrm Wizard has quite some uses. Getting a choice from Miracle, Choose Destiny, Minute Form, Fortunate Fate, Empyreal Ecstasy or Warp Destiny is well worth the cost. A Recaster is probably better, but you have to be a Changeling.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

malaspina

  • Ring-Tailed Lemur
  • **
  • Posts: 23
  • Braaaaaains
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #309 on: April 04, 2010, 04:36:51 PM »
A62: I just checked Draconomicon, Dragon Magic and Races of the Dragon... there are no full progression arcane classes :(
Yeah, that's what I had done before asking here  :D

Q 63: What's the correct interpretation of Arcane Thesis? the FAQ suggest it lowers the *total* level increase by one, while the Errata explicitly states that it lowers *each* level increment by one.
« Last Edit: April 04, 2010, 05:35:27 PM by malaspina »

Hijax

  • Donkey Kong
  • ****
  • Posts: 646
  • Kobolds ate my cookies
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #310 on: April 04, 2010, 05:39:33 PM »
A62: I just checked Draconomicon, Dragon Magic and Races of the Dragon... there are no full progression arcane classes :(
Yeah, that's what I had done before asking here  :D

Q 63: What's the correct interpretation of Arcane Thesis? the FAQ suggest it lowers the *total* level increase by one, while the Errata explicitly states that it lowers *each* level increment by one.
errata has precedence, i think.

There is, however, some shakiness on the area of invisible spell. The feat says you cannot go below +0 level increase, but whether this is total(making invisible spell a free -1), or for each metamagic feat(making it stay at +0), is not clarified. i say the former.
"There's more to apocalypse than running around like a maniac you know"
-B. M. Evilwizardington.
blogging at disasters made in china

Vinom

  • Hong Kong
  • ****
  • Posts: 1414
  • Rejoice, Bad things are about to happen!
    • Email
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #311 on: April 04, 2010, 05:40:58 PM »
Q60b: Is there any way for a Deep Dwarf to negate dazzle from daylight? Be it by spell, item or otherwise.
Feat: Daylight Adaptation from Underdark, and Races of Eberron. You can take that early and then retrain it later if you want (after you get the shades).

Q 61 Where can I find rules on drinking alcohol, and taking stat damage for failing throws?
The local bar.
I'm laughing on the inside. :eh

I was laughing on the outside  :D

A61:  Arms and Equipment guide has a couple of entries for alcohol, including ones listed in that book.  There's a subheading on pg 32 that probably has what you are looking for.
Indeed.  Each type of alcohol has a certain Fort save DC ranging from 10-15.  When you fail the save you take 1d2 points of Dex and 1d2 points of Wis damage.  A second drink in an hour imposes a -1 penalty on the save for your second drink.  A third drink in an hour imposes a -2 for that save; a fourth gets a -4, and it keeps doubling thereafter.

If you reach 0 Wisdom, you fall unconscious; if you reach 0 Dex, you collapse in a semi-conscious heap.  If you reach both 0 Dex and 0 Wis, then you suffer alcohol poisoning, and must make a Fort or Con save/check every 10 minutes (I forget which) or take Con damage.  Without treatment, you will eventually die when you reach 0 Constitution.
In races of stone, there is an entry for golith ale that does 1d3 primary and secondary charisma damage. You could get a socrerer so drunk he can't cast.
A player once asked me if there was any way to make a Tarrasque more evil... 3 sessions later he was stoned with D20s as the PC led an exidus out of the path of a Dire Tarrasque of Legendary Wonder.

Quote from:  Sarda the Sage
You're a quick thinker and spiteful, I can respect that. You won't be killed, Bikke

Never trust a smiling laughing chuckling grinning emotionless drunk, you know what Never Trust a DM!

78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. If you're one of the 22% that didn't, copy and paste this into your signature

Pulling off Pun-pun in 26 rounds

N00bs, because all gamers have to start somewhere

"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from Science!"

Remember, Mobs are at least as stupid as their dumbest member.

kevin_video

  • Organ Grinder
  • *****
  • Posts: 4833
    • Email
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #312 on: April 04, 2010, 05:42:33 PM »
In races of stone, there is an entry for golith ale that does 1d3 primary and secondary charisma damage. You could get a socrerer so drunk he can't cast.
That's awesome. So regular alcohol for normal divine casters and monks (who aren't drunken masters), and Goliath ale for CHA based ones. What about INT based casters?
I reject your reality, and substitute my own.

When God gives you lemons... it's time to find a new God.

Like D&D Freakouts? Check out this 4th Ed one.

ksbsnowowl

  • Grape ape
  • *****
  • Posts: 1645
  • Wishing I was a raging Norseman
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #313 on: April 04, 2010, 05:58:04 PM »
In races of stone, there is an entry for golith ale that does 1d3 primary and secondary charisma damage. You could get a socrerer so drunk he can't cast.
That's awesome.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

KSB Snow Owl's Archer Build thread

Vinom

  • Hong Kong
  • ****
  • Posts: 1414
  • Rejoice, Bad things are about to happen!
    • Email
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #314 on: April 04, 2010, 06:00:02 PM »
In races of stone, there is an entry for golith ale that does 1d3 primary and secondary charisma damage. You could get a socrerer so drunk he can't cast.
That's awesome. So regular alcohol for normal divine casters and monks (who aren't drunken masters), and Goliath ale for CHA based ones. What about INT based casters?
Sudden blows to the head?
A player once asked me if there was any way to make a Tarrasque more evil... 3 sessions later he was stoned with D20s as the PC led an exidus out of the path of a Dire Tarrasque of Legendary Wonder.

Quote from:  Sarda the Sage
You're a quick thinker and spiteful, I can respect that. You won't be killed, Bikke

Never trust a smiling laughing chuckling grinning emotionless drunk, you know what Never Trust a DM!

78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. If you're one of the 22% that didn't, copy and paste this into your signature

Pulling off Pun-pun in 26 rounds

N00bs, because all gamers have to start somewhere

"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from Science!"

Remember, Mobs are at least as stupid as their dumbest member.

kevin_video

  • Organ Grinder
  • *****
  • Posts: 4833
    • Email
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #315 on: April 04, 2010, 06:03:35 PM »
In races of stone, there is an entry for golith ale that does 1d3 primary and secondary charisma damage. You could get a socrerer so drunk he can't cast.
That's awesome.
It is. I know exactly what I'll be serving at my rendition of Tarus's Banquet. Just need one that lowers INT. Besides the blows to the head.  :notlistening

What is with this board lately and it's terrible jokes?

Q 64 In Savage Species, it says that an Ogre goes Large, gets +2 STR and -2 DEX. Is this alongside the +8 STR, -2 DEX, and +4 CON they get for being large? And it says -1 Attack and AC. The -1 AC is the -2 DEX, but what's the -1 attack? Ranged and melee for being larger?
I reject your reality, and substitute my own.

When God gives you lemons... it's time to find a new God.

Like D&D Freakouts? Check out this 4th Ed one.

Fluffles

  • That monkey with the orange ass cheeks
  • ****
  • Posts: 303
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #316 on: April 04, 2010, 06:11:25 PM »
In races of stone, there is an entry for golith ale that does 1d3 primary and secondary charisma damage. You could get a socrerer so drunk he can't cast.
That's awesome.
It is. I know exactly what I'll be serving at my rendition of Tarus's Banquet. Just need one that lowers INT. Besides the blows to the head.  :notlistening

What is with this board lately and it's terrible jokes?

Q 64 In Savage Species, it says that an Ogre goes Large, gets +2 STR and -2 DEX. Is this alongside the +8 STR, -2 DEX, and +4 CON they get for being large? And it says -1 Attack and AC. The -1 AC is the -2 DEX, but what's the -1 attack? Ranged and melee for being larger?

A64: No it is not, that was a WotC over sight in the Monstrous progressions. The "-1 AC & Attack" is a penalty all Large creatures get, and is cumlative with the -1 from having a lower DEX.

NiteCyper

  • Bi-Curious George
  • ****
  • Posts: 544
  • Contact me on .NET Messenger Service.
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #317 on: April 04, 2010, 07:02:16 PM »
Q.65. Does the Unseelie Fey template's Summer Caress (Su) thwart Color Spray, i.e. mind-affecting effects?
Mind-affecting descriptor: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicOverview/spellDescriptions.htm#descriptor
Unseelie Fey: http://img532.imageshack.us/g/dragoncompendium222unse.png/

Q.66. Must opposed checks be made simultaneously, e.g. hiding while sleeping?
http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=7643.msg253885#msg253885

Q.67. What or where are the rules on hidden checks, e.g. hiding while sleeping?

Q.68. re: "feat-selection + retraining + class-selection"-gymnastics: does feat-selection come before prestige-class-entrance? How liberal is the chronology of character creation and class level entry and advancement? e.g. for the purposes of the "Flexible Mind [Anarchic]" feat at level 1.
Flexible Mind [Anarchic]: http://img243.imageshack.us/i/d326p80chaosfeats.png/

Q.69. On the note of the Unseelie Fey template's Summer Caress (Su) vs. mind-affecting effects, I find that the "Mindsight" feat acts very similar to a mind-affecting effect. As a GM, how fair is it to label it as one? Otherwise, what thwarts "Mindsight" (except AMF, Dust of Disappearance, and possibly Hellbreaker)? At the earliest level, is Hellbreaker the only practical solution to thwarting "Mindsight"?
http://img706.imageshack.us/i/lom126mindsightfeat.png/
http://img109.imageshack.us/g/fcii89hlbrkr4.png/

Q.70. Isn't it silly for the Reflex save to remain unaffected when flat-footed? My situation being a Dragonfire Adept sneaking up on someone and attacking someone with their breath weapon point-blank. I can't even coup-de-grace with the dang thing like if I perform mouth-to-mouth fire-breathing.
« Last Edit: April 04, 2010, 11:41:04 PM by NiteCyper »
Caveat: I edit my posts, ever and anon after.

kevin_video

  • Organ Grinder
  • *****
  • Posts: 4833
    • Email
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #318 on: April 04, 2010, 07:07:40 PM »
A64: No it is not, that was a WotC over sight in the Monstrous progressions. The "-1 AC & Attack" is a penalty all Large creatures get, and is cumlative with the -1 from having a lower DEX.
Okay so at lvl 5 in Savage Species when you go up in Ogre does it great down like this...?

Lvl 5 +1d8 +1 BAB +1 Fort 2+INT skills +1 CR Reach 10 ft, +2 STR, -2 DEX, Large size (+8 STR, -2 DEX*, +4 CON, -1 attack, -1 AC*, +2 nat armor)

*AC and DEX loss are the same minus
I reject your reality, and substitute my own.

When God gives you lemons... it's time to find a new God.

Like D&D Freakouts? Check out this 4th Ed one.

Agita

  • Organ Grinder
  • *****
  • Posts: 5465
  • SFT is mai waifu.
Re: Ask a Simple Question: Viking Berserker Edition
« Reply #319 on: April 04, 2010, 07:20:38 PM »
Q.65. Does the Unseelie Fey template's Summer Caress (Su) thwart Color Spray, i.e. mind-affecting effects?
Mind-affecting descriptor: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicOverview/spellDescriptions.htm#descriptor
Unseelie Fey: http://img532.imageshack.us/g/dragoncompendium222unse.png/
A 65

Why should it? It's not affected by a regular Magic Circle/Protection, so it's not affected by Summer Caress. The Magic Circle and Protection lines do nothing to protect you from Mind-Affecting spells, they only thwart possession, which Color Spray didn't do last time I checked.
It's all about vision and making reality conform to your vision. By dropping a fucking house on it.

Agita's Awesome Poster Compilation
Lycanthromancer's Awesome Poster Compilation